Joe McElderry, the winner of the UK's X Factorwho came out of the closet in July, launched his album over the weekend at Heaven nightclub's G-A-Y night in London. Here's a cute video of Joe backstage and on stage.

The five candidates for governor of Maine are split on their views of marriage equality.

New wheelchair-bound muslim superhero to be introduced: "The new superhero is the brainchild of a group of disabled young Americans and Syrians who were brought together last month in Damascus by the Open Hands Initiative."

CDC: "The rate of new HIV infection in the U.S. is increasing among only one risk group: gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men." The news comes just in time for tomorrow's National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

Paper claims it has photos of Lindsay Lohan injecting heroin into her arms.

Joe McElderry on his coming outearlier this summer: "I'm glad I did it,. It wasn't necessarily a hard decision, because once I realised who I was as a person and how I wanted to talk about it, I managed to deal with it okay and it was pretty plain sailing."

Rally face-off: The National Park Service has approved a permit for a Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally for later this month. "The park service is processing a permit request for a counter demonstration and rally by the Rev. Al Sharpton on the same day along Independence Avenue, south of the memorial. Line said the Sharpton rally organizers list 3,000 expected attendees on their permit request."

Baseball League umpire Billy Van Raaphorst comments on the on-field, gay slur confrontation
with manager Brent Bowers: “I’m here to umpire. I’m here to work. What
happened in Orange County happened. We can’t unwind it. I don’t want it
to be a distraction anymore. It went from zero to 100 just like that. I
had no chance to put the brakes on it, no chance to stop it.”

"I got up to go home. I turned round and he made the first move and kissed me. It was definitely the first time he'd kissed a guy because he told me. He said he'd kissed a few girls but never had sex. It was a long passionate kiss. But that was all that happened and I left...He was shy and turned away when I leaned towards him. I could see he had the uncertainty I had felt at his age....[A week later they did kiss] Joe opened the door in pyjamas. His mum was out so we lay on the settee and kissed and cuddled. We didn't ever get any more intimate than that...He's been brave. It can't have been easy doing that in the public eye."